Cylinder printing-machine.



No. 773,444. PATENTED CCT. 25, 1904.

- E. WESSER. CYLINDER PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED .TUNE 5, 1903. N0 MODEL. 3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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No. 773,444. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904.

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TJNTTED STATES Patented October 25, 1904.

ERNST VESSER, OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY.

CYLINDER PRINTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,444, dated'October 25, 1904.

Application flied June 5, 190s. seriaiNo. 160,244. momia To a/ZZ whom, it 771/04/ concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST IVEssER, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at 2l Plagwitzerstrasse III, Leipzig, Germany,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cylinder Printing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a cylinder printing-machine for printing breadths otfwallpaper and the like by means of which parts of patterns in the form of strips of varied color, as well as the parts in monotone serving to connect them, can be printed under a single continuous working operation.

In the accompanying drawings the device is shown as applied to a wall-paper-printing machine.

Figure l is a longitudinal section through the color-boxes with the color-feeding cylinder mounted therein and divided into a number of parts. Fig'. 2 is a diagram illustrating' the laying' on of the color; Fig. 3,- a plan of the color-feeding cylinder with color-boxes; Fig'. 4, a plan of the whole printing device. Fig. 5 represents a pattern in ve colors with corresponding color-feeding cylinders.

In the form illustrated in Figs. l to 5 it is assumed that a pattern infive colors is to be printed, for which purpose a color-feeding cylinder in four parts or lengths and an undivided color-feeding cylinder are employed. Correspondingly to the division of the colort'eeding cylinder a (see Figs. l, 3, and 4) the color-boxes are also divided into four parts, so that each part can be interchanged independently of the others. The different colors in the boxes I are conveyed to the colorband CZ in the usual way by means of the cylinders (t (see Figs. Q and 4) and appear, as shown in Fig. 4, in four separate strips on the color-bands, by which the suitable parts of the pattern-cylinder g are colored, so that the cylinder g prints simultaneously in four colors.

In order that the pattern may be of a more homogeneous character, the leaves, branches, and the like are printed with a cylinder g, which occupies the whole breadth of the paper, the color-band d ot' which is furnished with a color in the ordinary way by an undivided color-feeding cylinder a', which of course 1'0- tates in an undivided color-box In orderV that any color dropping off the color-bands CZ may not reach any adjoining color-box, but always be conveyed again to the proper color-box, a bar with curved depending strips c, is arranged to bear lightly against the color-band CZ, being placed above the divided applyingcylinder a, with the strips between each two parts of the cylinder What I claim, and desire to secure b y Letters Patent, is-

l. In a cylinder printing-machine of the character described, the combination with a divided color-boX, of a divided color-feeding cylinder, the sections of which are rotatably mounted in the sections of the divided colorbox, a color-band arranged to receive the colors from the sections of the color-feeding cylinder, a pattern-cylinder arranged to receive the colors from the color-band, and a bar arranged above the color-feeding cylind er transversely of and bearing against the color-band and having' depending strips arranged to direct any colors dropping from the color-band back into the respective sections of the colorbox.

2. In a cylinder printing-machine of the character described, the combination with a divided color-boX, of adivided color-feeding cylinder, the sections of which are rotatably mounted in the sections of the divided colorboX, a color-band arranged to receive the colors from the sections ot' the color-feeding cylinder, a pattern-cylinder arranged to receive the colors from the color-band, a bar arranged above the color-feeding cylinder transversely otl and bearing against the color-band and having depending strips arranged to direct any colors dropping from the color-band back into the respective sections ofthe color-box, an undivided color-boX, an undivided color-feeding cylinder rotatably mounted therein, a colorband arranged to receive the color from said band, and a printing-cylinder g arranged to receive the color from the last-named band.

In testimony whereof I have aixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNST VVESSER.v Witnesses:

HEIN. SACHS, RUDOLPH FRICKE. 

